SMN solo exp?Follow

FoV would have been nice when I was soloing my smn in the mid 30s to late 40s. Those were slow going lvls of unbelievable slowness.

not much else would be changed from what I did before, I dont think.

50s+ Id probably still do bombs and the occasional besieged..wouldnt touch campaign til I could get reraise :/ even then campaign full time did eventually drive me bonkers, I did vunkerl inlet bombs on iceday and lightningsday just to mix things up. I dinged 75 on uleguerand range with alot of anniversary ring and emperor band charges.

Its perty slow and I was an overly slow lvler due to my lack of time, but yeah its reasonable, I guess. My only complaint was bombs seem to not want to drop kindred seals! you'd think you'd be able to get an entire stack of 99 just because you're soloing but nooooo.

working you're way through bombs and snolls solo can be great exp. in all honesty i found it faster exp than some parties can manage at certain levels,

the only draw back is its heavily dependant on luck. if you are lucky you can kill 10 bombs in 10 minutes and net close to 4k exp without a band. then ya might find the next 10 bombs are complete pains in the ass and just will not self destruct. thus might take you 30-45 mins to kill 10 and maybe get 2k exp.

but adding all 20 of those bombs together your looking at 6k/hour exp, which is a fairly reasonable average i find without band charges. you gotta be really unlucky if every single bomb/snoll you fight refuses to self destruct fairly quick lol,

my personal record solo is chain 11 on volcanic gasses, but then ive had the extreme opposite where i once killed 6 bombs back to back with carbys meleee cos they wouldnt blow up at all.

but then ive also had exp parties that have been so slow exp feels like its going backwards. thus its not a bad job to solo imo,

What about soloing SMN XP@75?

SMN isn't exactly the indemand job for merit parties and your going to lose XP at some point, so anyone possibly know some spots that are good @75?

Also for the op, ifrits cauldron is a good spot on bombs, good for 50-70 I heard.

Imps in the mire, I can get 7-7.5k/hr (no band) solo, quite simple to chain 4 there.

Level sync has really screwed with my summoning magic skill ups, that and combined with being asked to heal and nothing else for parties its a bit behind.

Would it be a good idea to go to mire with a low skill or work on skilling it up then going?

Also do you guys use fenrir or another arvatar? I still need fenrir should be getting it done in the next day or so...

if you spend a little time in ifrits learning the way around then repops are pretty much never a problem and the increased number of mobs can lead to faster exp.

if my targets were the volcanic gas type bombs, then i would enter ifrits using the eastern entrance and take the first right turning and my first target is the volcanic gas that roams near the flame spout. Then head south again past the entrance and is usually a second bomb roaming this path somewhere which i'd kill and then head north again to the point on the map where the ??? is for one of the bastok missions. Sometimes theres a bomb close to the edge that makes a good 3rd target. id kill that if possible or carry on south and west coming into the open area with another bomb and the tunnel accross from you has another bomb in there.

after killing all these and exiting the tunnel (point B on map1) you find yourself in the centre of the volcano where theres yet another bomb and the alter of ashes close to you, taking one of the two tunnels near the alter will take you toward the western zone entrance map i would proceed through here killing the bombs on the way and then take the path (pointK on map3) towards the bomb queen spawn point. at this point sneak becomes very important all the time not just at night, you can proceed west (point L on map 7, along this route somewhere youll start to encounter volcaninc bombs, a tougher version of the volcanic gas mobs but your route should be heading towards point E and then on to A on the respective maps and you'll find your self coming out back near the first flame spout and the position of the first bomb that you killed repopped and ready for you to start the circle again.

i got chain 6-7 several times following this route and on occasion i've even made it round the full loop back to the first flame spout before the first bomb has repopped, then when your levels get higher at the point where you come back into the centre of the volcano at point E you can start to venture down path H and proceed to kill the Volcanic Bombs (tougher mobs than volcanic gas) and take a slightly different loop around the zone.

a big plus point to taking these routes is that you pass virtually all the coffer pop points so any keys you pick up along the way can net you some gils quite easily and then theres also the pop items for the bomb queen, I'd made about 6 full pop sets plus a few spare ashes in the course of my soloing adventures, by the time id bazaared those plus opened all the coffers id found on my treks i must've made about 600k gils :D

I did learn my way around >.> I was there for nearly 10 lvls or so. I personally started on what I call the "bunny slopes" and I stayed near the zone til I felt comfortable to move on. I assure you I was used to pop respawn times and such by the time I left

I usually only ever went to that second camp near the other yhoater zone line when somebody else was soloing at the first camp.

Have any of you had a problem with getting exp from volcanic gasses? I started soloing them now that im a 51 smn and for the first 3 destructs it worked out great, but after that i stopped receiving exp. I was close enough to the mob to receive exp but didnt receive any indication.